Mattjsltan - Guitar - mucking about "Star Spangled Banner" ..first picking up a guitar on april 2017, after 20 years quitting pro band (1998 to 2016),..to honor Jimi Hendrix. Also to Jeff Beck who spoke with me in London UK , the only superstar I got to meet.

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mucking about "Star Spangled Banner" ..first picking up a guitar on april 2017, after 20 years quitting pro band (1998 to 2016),..to honor Jimi Hendrix. Also to Jeff Beck who spoke with me in London UK , the only superstar I got to meet.

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MANY THANKS FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO READ THIS. YOU ROCK ! HOPE TO SEE YOU EVERY TIME I ADD A NEW SONG HERE ON FANDALISM. GOD BLESS

as a kid in primary 3 , in singapore, i started imitating everly bros buddy holly brain jones rolling stones manfred man as a tiny weasel, with my head pressed against rediffusion box on the wall to memorize the lyrics then ape them like a bloody parrot.LOL. my family and nieghbors all went, "waaaaa u r so talented, you sound like everybody...(a human jukebox LMAO)
my first claim to fame LOL, was at a fun fair, there was a talent-time, my mom pushed me on stage, i aped , once again, cliff richard or was it ricky nelson, all including my brylcreem elvis hair. i came in 2nd . later, i heard donovan, and i also started to write my first folk song. it was easy because all you have to do is play 4 chords, LOL. i audition with those 4 tunes for Philips and was offered to record 4 folk tunes . but the EP did not happened, as by then I discovered Cream and Hendrix from the armed forces radio BBC Brian Matthew TOTP. i formed a clone power trio with my as jack bruce on bass and vocals . that started me playing pro in naval bases high school dances. we were big, really big , and got endorsement for custom made amplifiers that the agency (10th storey) offered us, with roadies and free practise place,,etc in exchange for let them be our rep to get gigs. the man was the coolest person ever, his name was mike. our band fried ice was voted top band in singapore of the naval bases and we even got our own tea dance, before some stupid high girl got raped in the loo by some even more stupid druggies. and we got lost the teadance. that was when i cussed and sweared about drugs! i never took drugs, never did, and never will. the only "drug" i took was music and guinness.

What was the first concert you ever went to?

rolling stones . can't remember when but brian jones was playing and i was a wee kid.

What gear do you use?

epiphone les paul/riviera/wildkat guitar, yamaha bass,fender strat HSS/Monterey Jimi Hendrix edition. Jimi Hendrix limited edition monterey and the les paul. but really, i like them all,depending on the music i compose and perform.

What are you looking for from Fandalism?

network of viewers who check out my music, especially my originals, and form a stronghold of faithful fans and peers of other musicians to support each others music

Who was your biggest musical influence growing up?

sam cooke, otis redding, james brown, tina turner eddie cochran , steve marriott(vocalists)
john mahavishnu mclaughlin, miles davis, jimi hendrix, john coltrane,mingus, monk, bird.
robert johnson, elmore james, willie dixon,. because they all change music revolutionize the pop music scene into a form of true performance of heart and soul instead of sheer pretty face and marketing to sell records by payola.

Are you in a band? Have you been in bands?

i was in many bands playing pro , pub nights, high school,etc.. but i got tired of bandboys getting drunk and chasing girls and not wanting to go any further. i wanted to play my own music and none of them were either good enough or had any ambition to stop playing copycats or just be satisfied being a great impersonator of some dead superstar . yes, we even dress like them. it was macabre after they died and we still performed like we were them on stage. weird how people would pay us money to see a band parroting jimi hendrix, buddy holly, stevie ray vaughan,etc. when they could stay home to listen to the original which is better than any parrot can do LMAO. i also quit most of the clone bands i played with, because they started to be unreliable taking drugs. i was the only one who " did not abuse the music with drugs", as the drummer of tower of power once said) . it was becoming unbearable because they sounded like sh*t high, though they and the audience thought they were so cool. once, i got zapped by a weak case of electrocution, and the stopped playing. the high audience did not even notice there was no music, they kept on dancing ! that was when i realise what drugs do to you, and decided to concentrate on writing and recording my own . i was even fired from several copy bands because i started to improvise doing charlie parker or robert johnson when they played smoke on the water, or playing wes when we played hendrix,etc. that stunned the frigging band and crowd, like "huh, that is not how we practised it, dude"..
and other times the club manager told to fire me because my music improvisation made their human jukebox repertoire undanceable. it was the best thing they ever did for me, as that was when i became a musician, not a jukebox. LOL

If you could jam with anyone, who would it be?

keith moon on drums, jaco pastorius on bass, otis redding on vocals and... me on lead guitar of course, LMAO. no, seriously, ollie halsall on lead guitar. because they are my main heros who influence my own playing. non-guitar and rock, trane, bird, monk, mingus, miles, dizzy, wes, every improviser in jazz or any one who broke the rules and made the music they play their own.. billie holliday, ornette, ..mahavishnu john mclaughlin,..jimi, gershwin,beethoven.

What's the biggest audience you ever performed to? What's the smallest?

largest...singapore national theatre. i don't know. alot. smallest...a bonfire in the middle of saskatchewan in the middle of winter.

You're stuck on a desert island and only get to bring one album with you. What do you pick?

inner mounting flame mahavishnu orchestra. no make it two.
billie holliday box set. because i am both a guitarist and vocalist.
and these two people are responsible for telling me, "it's ok, f**k the rules, music is not an intellectual project that you learn from teachers who never did anything original, not even wrote a book or play their own music. music is not like a frog to be dissected. eg. billie holliday, in the history of lady day, the composers hated her because "she never sings it like we composed it" . ffs, i am sure today, they are not saying that because billie made a lot of money for them, rewriting their sh*tty compositions.

MANY THANKS FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO READ THIS. YOU ROCK ! HOPE TO SEE YOU EVERY TIME I ADD A NEW SONG HERE ON FANDALISM. GOD BLESS